Fans of Jordan Peele Are Full of Us Movie Theories, and 5 Top the List As the Best Out There

Everyone with an Us movie theory may be completely wrong, but it's still fun to make them.

Director and screenwriter Jordan Peele has had movie lovers wild with anticipation for his follow-up feature to Get Out, Us, ever since the release of the first trailer. And with it, Us movie theories started to trickle across the internet. The second trailer only made more people share their Us movie theories, and soon, SXSW attendees will get to know exactly what Us theories were correct, or whether everyone is wrong.

The unfortunate thing about Us premiering at SXSW is that all of us who are not at the screening on March 8 may have Us spoilers to contend with until the movie opens in theaters onMarch 22. You can avoid reviews, but there’s always someone who thinks it is a good idea to post a spoiler on social media or even a hint at what the big twist may be, and the moviegoing experience is ruined. You still see the film, but the experience is not the same.

Given the excitement and amount of Us movie theories circulating, we can only hope that the internet-verse does not post Us spoilers before the masses have had a chance to see the movie in theaters. It’s only good measure, though, to know what Us movie theories exist so when you do watch Us, you can see how good movie aficionados are at guessing movie twists or whether these Us fans are taking things too far.

5 Us Movie Theories You Need to Know

5. There Are Aliens in Jordan Peele’s Us

The psych inkblot stain from the trailer also represents alien goo similar to movies like "Venom," etc. This foreign intelligence arrived on earth and came in contact with the family producing a replica.

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4. Us Borrows From The Island and Cloning

Remember The Island with Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor? If not, it’s no surprise because it’s not very good, but its overall story is interesting: If you have the means, you can create clones who will live normally until you need an organ from them. There’s an Us movie theory that likens the doppelgängers to clones.

There was some past tragedy, presumably a house fire, that nearly killed the family. I think the young boy got the worst of it. So the Wilsons enlisted in this cloning program where spare parts from the clone, such as new skin, can be used by the rich family. I think the entire family was cloned and insured after the tragedy, the clones realized they are clones, and they escaped the facility that was holding them to look for the real family so they can replace them and have a normal life. I think the Wilson mother and father know this, but the children do not. Their memories were wiped.

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And one last bit of information from davinpantz: The rabbits are part of the cloning experiments, too.

3. The Us Clones Can’t Be Killed By Just Anyone

The Us movie theories out there love the idea of cloning, and here’s another that takes cloning and goes a bit deeper into the logistics of it.

The clones can only be killed by the person they're a clone of. [In the trailer] it appears that the mother had tried to kill the clone of the son, with fire. Yet, he walks out unscathed, and seems to taunt her. She also looks horrified, like she wasn't expecting him to survive that. And in the rest of the trailer, we only see clones fighting against their Originals, no one else involved. Would make sense, and would make the situation much more darker, as then that would mean that their children would have to commit murder just to stay alive. Heavy stuff.

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2. Us Wants to Show Us Who We Are Not

The doppelgängers are the physical manifestation of having to suppress their real selves in the workplace, school, etc.
Suppressing anger over all of the microaggressions in day-to-day life took the form of their clones

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1. Us Is a Sequel to Get Out

The favorite of all the Us movie theories: Us is a sequel to Get Out, and the family is actually white people in their new bodies and the doppelgängers the real family who has escaped from the sunken place.

There are many variations of this theory out there, but I’m sure you get the idea.

On March 22 all will be revealed, and every Us movie theory found true or false or close to reality. Whether Us is a sequel to Get Out or not, and whether clones are real or alien, is all up for grabs at this point. Just make sure to grab a ticket to Us now, so you don’t miss seeing it before spoilers are everywhere.

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